Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...front-page indignation engineered by Ferdinand Pecora, who took over the Senate Banking & Currency investigation of 1932-33. When he showed how Charlie Mitchell rigged the market in Anaconda; how Rudolph Spreckels made over$14,000,000 in the Kolster Radio pool while suckers lost their shirts; how Dick Whitney, pegging a German bond issue, waited till the Morgans were out before he "pulled the plug"; how the Stock Exchange of 1929 really worked-the New Deal was able to write its own ticket for Federal regulation of security issues and trading...
Yale, with its height, speed, and power, is easily the favorite on paper, but Harvard will have the advantage of playing on the home court tonight. This is an especially important factor against the Blue quintet, which has proved to be much more potent on the Payne Whitney floor than on any other...
...five years as have the swimmers. With these things in mind Hal Ulen's boys will be training furiously this week and next, determined that the Kiphuth kids will really have to huff and puff for a while when, next Tuesday evening, the Crimson tankmen journey to the Payne Whitney Gymnasium's Exhibition Pool...
When the Varsity hoopsters step onto the floor of the Payne Whitney gym in New Haven this evening to face their traditional rivals, the Elis, it will be the familiar situation of an underdog Harvard meeting a taller opponent which boasts a far better record of wins and losses...
Birthday. Heiress Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt, 16, onetime centre of a custody battle between Mother Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, widow of Reginald Vanderbilt, and Aunt Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney...